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Fortune-hunting

Fortune-hunting
 1804

Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
24.9 × 37.6 cm (image) 25.5 × 38.2 cm (plate) 25.8 × 39.3 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 10301; Wright & Evans 531
Printing/Publishing
published by Hannah Humphrey, London
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: _ B. (compass pointing north) (monogram) . Eſq: _ del. _
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: London Publish’d November 20.th (th in superscript above . ) 1804. by H. Humphrey N.o (o in superscript above . ) 27 St (t in superscript) James’s Street / — FORTUNE-HUNTING.—
Accession Number
1573.18-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire
Subjects (specific)
cartoons (humorous images) deceit divination equestrians fortune hunters (people) pickpocketing theft (social issue)
Movements
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)